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In a report into the manipulation of a key inter-bank interest rate, Parliament’s Treasury committee demanded sweeping changes to regulation of the banking industry, calling for authorities to win wider powers to prosecute offenders.
Barclays has been fined $453 million by US and British agencies for feeding false data which went into calculations of the London interbank offered rate, known as LIBOR, a market index which influences the costs of a range of financial instruments, including home mortgages.
The committee criticized both the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority over failures to uncover the scandal sooner, and said it was highly unlikely that the practice of rate-fixing was confined to one bank.
“The sustained rigging of a crucial benchmark rate has done great damage to the U.K.’s reputation. Public trust in banks is at an all-time low,” committee chairman Andrew Tyrie said.
“Urgent improvements, both to the way banks are run and the way they are regulated, is needed if public and market confidence is to be restored. The manipulation was spotted neither by the FSA nor the Bank of England at the time. That doesn’t look good,” he said.
Tyrie said his committee was calling for higher fines for firms that fail to cooperate with regulators, a tightening of laws to make it easier to prosecute rate-fixing offenses and stronger governance from the Bank of England — which was criticized as naive and “relatively inactive,” over manipulation of the LIBOR rate.
In evidence given to the panel at a hearing in July, Diamond appeared to suggest that a Bank of England executive had encouraged Barclays to manipulate rate data — a charge the Bank has denied.
Legislators said they believed they had been misled by Diamond.
“Select committees are entitled to expect candor and frankness from witnesses before them. Mr. Diamond’s evidence, at times highly selective, fell well short of the standard that Parliament expects, particularly from such an experienced and senior witness,” Tyrie said.
After lawmakers previously accused him of misleading their panel, Diamond fired off a letter to Tyrie insisting his testimony had been accurate. Suggestions he had not been candid were “totally unfair and unfounded,” Diamond wrote.
Britain’s government has announced that Tyrie will lead a Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, intended to look at steps needed to restore confidence in the country’s banking sector.
“The manipulation of key global benchmark rates has been another example of a culture of irresponsibility within the banking system, which the Government is determined to fix as quickly as possible,” Britain’s Treasury said in a statement.
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